I have a preschooler, three to five years old
As your child grows and gets ready for their first day of school, you may have questions and want support along the way.
No cost programs to support you and your child can provide:
- Quality childcare
- Free and low-cost certified pre-school
- Culturally relevant reading and early learning programs
- Assistance finding health coverage, care, and other supports
- Parenting support
- Calendar of events, activities, and classes
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Help Me Grow
Help Me Grow is a free service connecting families to needed resources and services starting with pregnancy through age six. Families can also connect to parenting supports, basic needs, healthcare providers.
Head Start Programs
Head Start programs promote early childhood learning, childhood health and overall family wellbeing. Programs include: Head Start, Migrant Seasonal Head Start, Oregon Pre-K, Migrant Head Start, Early Head Start, Oregon Pre-K Prenatal (OPK P-3), Early Head Start Child Care Partnership, and Early Head Start Home Based.
APPLY TODAY: Choose the Head Start program that fits your family at Community Action Organization or Oregon Child Development Coalition.
Family Resource Coordinators
Family Resource Coordinators provide information, parenting support, referrals, and learning opportunities for families with children birth to six years of age at no cost and can be connected through Help Me Grow.
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutrition education, breastfeeding support, healthy food, health referrals, and other services free of charge to families who qualify. Enroll with Help Me Grow.
Assistance for Indigenous MesoAmerican Families
The TierrAgua COVID-19 Relief Assistance Program for Mesoamerican/Indigenous Families of Washington County ended on December 31st, 2021.
This one-time program, COVID-19 Impact Support Fund, was provided by Health Share of Oregon to United Way of the Columbia-Willamette. The funds were designated to aid organizations in addressing the critical needs arising from the current public health and economic crises.
In partnership with TierrAgua, funds were used to provide emergency and on-going assistance for utilities and/or rent payments for families. A total of 95 families received benefits for rent and/or utilities assistance with this program.
72 families from Guatemala and 23 from Mexico were served through this program. Families that received assistance spoke numerous languages including High and Low Mixtec, Zapoteco, Mam, Q’anjob’al, K’iche’, and Chu’uj.
A big thank you to TierrAgua and Health Share Oregon for supporting families in our region through this effort!
Free Preschool
Free Preschool is for families with children aged three and four meeting income guidelines. Preschools have a variety of programs, services, and languages.
Parenting Together
Parenting Together is a collection of resources available to parents in Washington County. This includes parent education, child care resources, family-friendly activities, and web-based resources for parents organized by the child's age.
Early Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) may sound scary, but parents, caregivers, and children already use STEM every day!
Ready to Read
The Multilingual Permanent Collections are early literacy campaigns to ensure that the growing numbers of immigrant and refugee students and their families in Washington County have the books, programs and supplies they need to be ready for school and prepared to succeed. Early Learning Washington County has allocated funding to support this effort since 2017.
211info Child Care
2-1-1 provides free, customized referrals to child care providers and strategies for finding quality child care in Oregon. To speak with a Parent Educator about child care resources: